"Summer Wars" will be broadcast on Friday Roadshow on August 1st

It has been announced that the hit animated feature film "Summer Wars," directed by Mamoru Hosoda, which was released in 2009, will be broadcast on Friday Road Show (Nippon TV, Friday 9pm) on August 1st. The film was released on August 1st, 2009, about 16 years ago, so it will be broadcast on that anniversary. In the second half of the program, they will show footage of the first TV broadcast of Hosoda's latest film "Scarlet," which will be released on November 21st.

"Summer Wars" is set in a society where the real world and the virtual world, OZ, coexist. The story is about the protagonist Kenji, a high school student who is a genius at math but timid, who is asked by his crush, Natsuki, to do a part-time job pretending to be her lover, and visits Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture, where the real family lives. However, he ends up being framed as the culprit who disrupted the virtual world, which supports the world's lifeline.

Ryunosuke Kamiki Kenji and Nanami Sakuraba voiced Natsuki, with Tanimura Mizuki, Fuji Junko, Riisa Naka, Nakamura Tadashi, and the late Nagai Ichiro also appearing as voice actors.